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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

L. VAN BUNNEN.

WATGHMANS TIME DETECTOR.

No. 290,946. Patented Deo. 25, 1883.

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UivrTen STATES LOUIS VAX BUNXEX, OF IRSSIELS,

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 290,946, dated December 25 1883.

Application iilcrl March 2'0, 1.95.8. (No model.) Patented in Belgium September 22, ISTD, No. 451.267, January T, 18H, Xo. Meal, and May 2G, 1883, h'o. 61,496; in France January S,18bi1,h`n.1l3,e`9; in England August 12, LSSI. No. 2.100; iu Germany August 20, 1881, Xo. 17242, and in Austria-Hungary November l?, 1881, I\'o. 27,604 ard No. 41,174.

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, Louis VAN BUNXEN, a subject of the King of Belgium, and a resident of Brussels, Belgium, have invented certain Improvements in Tell-Tale or Registering Apparatus, of which thc following is a specification.

My invention relates to a detector, tell-tale, or registering apparatus, more especially intended for the use of policemen, patrolmen, watchmen, postmen, railway-track inspectors, and others who have certain beats 7 or routes to traverse in the performance of their duties, the-apparatus being used to correctly register a number of successive points reached in the rounds by the persons using the apparatus.

The object ot` my invention is to construct a simple apparatus ot this kind which will not be liable to get out of order, will dispense with the use of clock-work, and will withstand considerable rough usage. This object I attain, as more fully described hereinafter.

My improvement consists of three principal parts: first, the portable register, to be carried by the policeman or other person on his rounds; second, the marking-box, to be iiXed .at each point along the route where it is desired to indicate a visit by the user of the register 5 and, third, the pocket-marker, to be used by the superintendent or general inspector.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a perspective view of the portable register. Fig. 2 is a front view of the same, drawn to a larger scale, with the cover opened and the register-card removed. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line l 2, Fig. 4. Fig. et is a sectional view on the line 3 4, Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the register-card and the inking-disk, but drawn to a smaller scale. Fig. 6 is a front view of the marking-box, drawn to a reduced scale, with the hinged cover thrown back. Fig. 7 is a section on the line 5 6, Fig. 6. Fig. 8 is a front view of the pocket-marker, drawn to an enlarged scale; Fig. 9, asection of the same.

Referring to Sheet l of the drawings, illustrating the register, A is the cylindrical casing, provided with a front plat-e or cover, hinged at a., and having a suitable locking device, C,

register is preferably provided with a leather or other handle, Il, Figs. l and 4, by which it may be readily carried in the hand like a bulls-eye lantern.

Vithin the casing is a diaphragm, D, mounted on suitable pillars, l d cl2, Figs. 8 and et, secured to the back plate, and in the latter and in this diaphragm is mounted a central axis, E, carrying in i'ront ot' the diaphragm a disk, E, provided on its face with suitable pins, e, on which the indicator-card H and its inking-disk I, of paper or fabric, Figs. et and 5, are ai'iixed and retained by a corresponding button, c. To this axis E is also secured, between the diaphragm and back plate, a ratchet-wheel, F, into which gears a spring- )avvl carried bv avibratine lever G )iv- 7. 7 L D 7 7 oted at g2 to the back plate ot' the casing and a stud thereon. This lever G is acted on by a spring, r/, Fig. S, and by the latter is normally kept in contact with one otl the pillars, d d', or other stop on the casing. The outer end ot' the lever G is provided with a lug, y, at right angles to the lever, and having an inclined or cam i'ace, so that when this end of the lever is pushed against a stud in the marking-box, as hereinafter described, the said lever G will be moved over in the direction ot' the arrow, Fig. 3, to cause the pawlf to move the ratchet-wheel F, and so turn the indicatorcard II and its hiking-disk I.

Between the wheel F and the diaphragm I) is a friction-spring, a, to prevent the axis E and its indicator-card from receiving a movement beyond that given it by the pawlf.

In the front plate, A, is an elongated slot. J, and immediately belowit an opening, j, and behind these two openings is a soft-metal an'- vil, j, on the diaphragm D, to receive the impressions to be made on the card I-I through the inking-disk I. On the front plate is also a guide-pin, p, anda projection, c', to guide the user in applying it to the marking-box, Figs. (3 and f. This consists of a rectangular cast-iron casing, II, with a hinged cover, K, provided with a spring-latch or locking dcvice, which can be readily opened. IVithin this casing is hinged a slotted plate or platform, L, guided at its outer end by a headed at the opposite edge. The back plate ot the pin, Z', passing through a slot inthe phite,and

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acted on by a spring, Z, which normally keeps the plate out in the positionshown in Fig. 7. This plate L is provided with curved guideiianges Z2 Z2, to receive the portable register, Sheet 1, the latter being applied to the plate so that the guide-pin p will iit in the opening p, while the projection a will be in the notch in the center of the upper ange, Z2. This will bring the slot J in the cover-plate of the register in line with a corresponding slot in the plate L, and through this latter slot project a stud, K, anda type, t, both fixed to the back of the boxI. Hence when the indicator-easing A in the hands of the patrohna-n or other user is placed face downward, as described, on the plate L, and the latter pressed inward against the action of the spring Z, the stud K will so act on the cam on the end of the lever G as to move the latter in the direction of the arrow, Fig. 3, turn the ratchet one tooth, and with it the indicator-card H, into the next position to receive theimpression of the typet through the inking-disk I. Each of the boxes K is provided with a different type, t, so that the patrolnian or other person carrying the register to the successive iixed marking-boxes K, makes a different impression for each-box, the indicator card being at the same time turned by the stud K to present a new space for each new niark. At the end of the route, or on the return to the inain oilice or stat-ion, the register is handed tothe general inspector or other superintendent, who then marks the hour on the indicator-card with the portable marker shown in Figs. S and 9. This is ailat disk-like box, consisting of a front and back plate, M M', united at the center by a suitable block, and also near the periphery by a perforated ring, r. 'Within the case thus formed are arranged radially a number of types, m'm, with their outer ends projecting slightly through openings in the ring o, and having lateral guide-pins m projecting through radial slots m2 in the face-plate M. Over the box thus formed is iitted a flanged disk, N, having in its annular flange one opening, n, i

Fig. 9, for the passage of a singletype, m. This disk is united to the case by a central pin, O, so that'the disk can be revolved thereon independently of the box and the pin itself be turned independently of both.

To the inner face of the pin is pivoted a latch, vR, which, when any one of the types m is thrust through the opening a in the iange of the disk N, can be placed, as shown in the drawings, to hold the said type in position to be passed through the opening j in the front plate of the register-casing A to make the iinpression of the desired number on the indidicatorcard H.

To prevent the card H from being used aiter one complete revolution, I provide the v disk E, Fig. 2, with a nose, q, which acts on a pointer and stop P to turn it to the positions shown by dotted lines at the beginning oi its revolution, so that when the nose q comes around again it will find an obstacle to its further progress.

I claim as my inventionl. A registering apparatus consisting of a series of marking -boxes fixed at different points along a route, and each provided with a different marking device and astud, in cornbination with a portable case having a movable disk carrying a register-card,and devices, substantially as described, whereby the stud on the box will move the disk when the case is applied to the box to receive the impression ofthe type.

2. The combination of a box having a marking-type and a yielding iianged guide-plate, I, with a portable registercase adapted to be applied to said yielding guide-plate, substantially as described.

3. The pocket-marker consisting of a box with movable radial type, and rotary iianged disk N, having an opening in its Iiange for a type, substantially as set forth.

LOUIS VAN BUNNE. IWitnesses:

ADoLrr Sfrnii, AUG. Jonissnx. 

